Artist of the Week

The Jack Straw Artist of the Week Podcast highlights work created through the Artist Residency Programs at Jack Straw Cultural Center.
  • L Koo New Media Gallery Interview

    Alyssa Keene interviews Jack Straw New Media Gallery artist L Koo about her installation to drown.

  • Carmona Flamenco - Soleares de Triana

    Marcos and Rubina Carmona received a Jack Straw Artist Support Program residency in 2000 to record contemporary flamenco music for guitar and voice including “Soleares de Triana,” an original composition commissioned by the Seattle Arts Commission.

  • Sangjun Yoo New Media Gallery Interview

    Alyssa Keene interviews Jack Straw New Media Gallery artist Sangjun Yoo about his installation blind film.

  • Brian Lawlor - Paint This, Ghonny

    Brian Lawlor received a Jack Straw Artist Support Program residency in 2001 to record a series of solo piano compositions and improvisations. You can hear more from Brian at http://brianlawlor.bandcamp.com/

  • Eye Music - Sapporo (excerpt)

    Eye Music‘s 2010 Artist Support Program project, their recording of Toshi Ichiyanagi’s Sapporo, was recently released on Edition Wandelweiser records. For more information on the release, visit https://www.wandelweiser.de/_e-w-records/_ewr-catalogue/ewr1801.html

  • Trio Guadalevin - Viajes

    “Viajes” was written by Jack Straw Artist Abel Rocha, based on poetry from our recent Spanish-language poetry project with students at Denny International Middle School. The song was performed by Trio Guadalevin (Abel, Antonio Gomez, and Gus Denhard).

  • Artscape: Stan Shikuma

    This Artscapes radio piece was produced at Jack Straw as part of a series highlighting the work of Jack Straw’s resident artists. Stan Shikuma, of Seattle Kokon Taiko, talks about the history and evolution of Taiko drumming, and using Taiko performance to break stereotypes of the Japanese-American community.

  • Charlie Burks - Dark Out

    Jack Straw artist Charlie Burks produced Since the Ace, a combined book and CD of his poems, in 2000. Charlie passed away recently; his life and work will be celebrated at Open Books (2414 N 45th St., Seattle) on Thursday, May 24th, 7pm.

  • Cello Experiment - Going the Distance

    Peter Williams and Cello Experiment produced their debut CD through the Jack Straw Artist Support Program. They celebrate with a release show tonight (Tuesday, April 24th) at the Crocodile Back Bar. Find more information on the group, the CD, and the show at https://www.facebook.com/celloexperiment/

  • Kent Chadwick - Cardboard Against the Rain

    This piece is part of Kent Chadwick’s New Jersey Suite, produced at Jack Straw in 2002 as part of his Artist Support Program residency.